Friends Reunion 2014: Matt LeBlanc will always be Joey Tribbiani. That kid from Brooklyn he played on "Friends" with Jennifer Aniston and the rest of the crew at the coffee shop, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and, Matthew Perry.

On his Showtime series "Episodes," where he plays Matt LeBlanc, the actor, a version of himself who can't get past his "Friends" days, he's stuck on a show called "Pucks," which only got made on his name. And was ruined by Joey Tribbiani as more and more compromises were made to make the British writers' show more palatable to American audiences.

In the Boston Common's Spring Fashion issue, LeBlanc says the Matt he's playing in "Episodes" is a " fictitious character, and you just have to approach it that way. He just happens to have the same name I do. When we were coming up with who the character was going to be, I thought it would be fun-since our salaries were all published during Friends-to make this Matt LeBlanc way, way wealthier than me."

The show references "Friends." It references "Joey," the "Friends" spinoff that co-starred Drea de Matteo, who played Adriana on the HBO classic gangster series "The Sopranos."

Matt LeBlanc played Joey Tribbiani for 10 seasons on "Friends." Matt LeBlanc is good with that.

LeBlanc told Boston Common "I'll always be known for Friends-so will Matthew [Perry], David [Schwimmer], Courteney [Cox]. It's OK with me. I can only speak for myself, but I'm very proud of it. I wouldn't do anything differently."

LeBlanc's character started on the sidelines, down the hall. "Joey was a peripheral character in the beginning. He was this guy who lived across the hall and hit on the girls all the time. Fortunately, I had the foresight to think, 'This is a special thing that's starting to gel, like a lighting-in- a-bottle thing, and I want to make sure I stick around.'  It was a survival tactic. Because I thought, 'How long can it last if I'm just the guy hitting on them?'"

In Episodes, LeBlanc has a stalker, well, he did have a stalker, she just left him for a real boyfriend. "The weirdest thing was walking into a room, a restaurant, a bar, a movie theater, anywhere there's a lot of people, and everybody sort of stopping what they're doing and taking notice you're in the room. And they know you, or they think they do-they know your name, they know what you do for a living, they know how much money you make, they know where you're from, but they're all strangers to you."